Eleven tigers starve to death at China zoo - media – China News

in.reuters.com — At least 11 tigers have died of hunger and malnutrition in a Chinese zoo so far this year, the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, local media reported on Thursday. [...] The tigers, all from the Shenyang Iceberg Animal Zoo in Liaoning, northeast China, were confined in very small and wet cages. They were only fed one or two scrawny chicken carcasses each day, the local Liaoshen Evening News reported, citing sources at the zoo.

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